Dissertations / Theses: 'Community space'

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Loftén, Carl, and Gustaf Hammerbo. "Mwakikonge community space." Thesis, KTH, Arkitektur, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-229799.

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Billings, Jr David Ross. "White Space, Black Space: Community Gardens in Portland, Oregon." PDXScholar, 2018. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/4550.

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Community gardens have been the focus of social science research in the United States for several decades and the benefits associated with these alternative food spaces has been well documented. More recently, scholars have begun to argue that these benefits are inequitably distributed across society. Largely as a result of the whiteness of these spaces, people of color are less represented in community and benefit less from their presence. Portland, Oregon is recognized as a leader in sustainability, with its abundance of community gardens and urban agriculture. It is also one of the whitest urban cities in the United States. People of color have faced a legacy of oppression and marginalization in Portland, and this is especially true for the black community. Through conducting 17 in-depth interviews and spending an extensive amount of time observing community gardens in Portland, this research aims to explore how the whiteness of these spaces functions to marginalize black individuals and contributes to the ongoing oppression of the black community. This research also demonstrates how the black community in Portland engages community gardening in an effort to resist these and broader effects of structural racism.

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Normoyle, Catherine L. "Recontextualizing Neglected Space in Community." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2012. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/art_design_theses/108.

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Neglected areas are everywhere. They are seen as foreclosed homes, commercial properties, rundown lots and even small spaces like broken signage and over-sized potholes. My investigation, Abandonment ex-plores how graphic design can be used to identify neglected areas and add meaning that challenges exist-ing perceptions of these areas. This becomes a way to suggest revitalization without actually redesigning a specific space. Abandonment matches carefully designed phrases, inspired by first hand research of community members, with neglected urban environments of Atlanta. The camouflaged environmental graphics, created by means of DOT signs, chalk drawings, and blackboards recontextualize environments to softly build curiosity, activate new thinking, and potentially spark reinvention. Perhaps if citizens ques-tion these neglected spaces, they may begin to imagine new purposes for these spaces and reclaim them? The investigation is thoroughly documented and will continue to mature over time. To follow the project online, visit urbanartatlanta.com.

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Porceddu, Enrico. "The role of IT and space in community driven Coworking Spaces." Thesis, Jönköping University, IHH, Informatik, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-52823.

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Coworking Spaces represent a global fast-growing trend which was able to gain momentum in research and academia, yet until now the fundamental role of IT within the coworking space ecosystem proves to be a rather unexplored topic for researchers and academia. Therefore, this research is about the role of space and information technologies (such as software, hardware, and more IT-related services) within CWSs; hence about the relation and interplay among those technologies, the involved actors and the physical environment in which the act of coworking takes place.

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Wright, Timothy John. "Community Space in the Urban Context." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/34439.

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Division is everywhere in our culture. We are divided by races, economic level, political affiliations, religion, nationality, and the list goes on, and on. Everywhere we turn we are faced with things that divide us, but we are rarely brought together. There are very few things in the world that allow us to set aside our differences and come together. Unfortunately public housing complexes in the U.S. have far too often served as a dividing factor in our society. As many public housing complexes have become synonymous with violence, neglect, and criminal activity, residents have been forced to avoid the public spaces, allowing them to become deserted community wastelands. But we can reverse the trend. This thesis will show that by creating spaces that encourage interaction between people, such as community centers, public parks, and retail nodes, we can begin to restore social housing complexes. By removing some of the barriers from our society we can help people reconnect with their neighbors and become more involved with their communities. This thesis will show that the removal of barriers from our public life also highlights the importance of reinforcing barriers in our private lives. This thesis will also demonstrate that bringing together different groups can not be accomplished by a single building but is most effective when accomplished by a group of buildings working in conjunction with each other. This thesis will show that careful planning and architecture can serve as the catalyst for bringing together people and communities.
Master of Architecture

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Buchanan, Joni. "From Gàidhealtachd community to shared space." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2015. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=230099.

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This thesis explores the nature and impacts of social change in a remote rural, island area within the Scottish Gaidhealtachd. It seeks to contribute to an in depth understanding of how the social and economic system of crofting, as well as the Gaelic culture which has related closely to it in such areas, has evolved over the past 40 years. The case study area of South Uig in the Isle of Lewis has low population numbers and offers an opportunity to study these processes of change in microcosm. Where appropriate, inferences can be drawn from the study which may contribute to the formulation of policy for similarly remote rural places and the fragile cultures which are integral to them.

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Barrett, Kirby. "Place, Space and Community: Enhancing community identity in Winona, Kansas." Kansas State University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/9187.

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Master of Landscape Architecture
Department of Landscape Architecture/Regional and Community Planning
Eric A. Bernard
The sub-rural Kansas community of Winona stands at a critical crossroad. The dilemma of rural population decline, fueled largely by technological advances in communication, transportation, and agriculture is devastating rural economies and the centers of community social life – namely the local school(s) and main street(s). The physical infrastructure, spatial character and unique identity of rural places is slowly diminished in the process. While great potential exists for the landscape architecture and planning professions to address the patterns of rural decline, the limited market for such services and the lack of regulations requiring those services precludes their effective implementation within rural communities. Within Winona, a long-standing stormwater problem provides an opportunity to address both the stormwater problem and the larger dilemma in a holistic landscape architecture approach. How can contemporary landscape architecture engage rural communities in planning and design solutions aimed at mitigating stormwater issues while addressing community identity loss resulting from population and economic decline? The Place, Space, Community (PSC) Framework developed can determine distinctive qualities and characteristics and illuminate community identity which serves as the creative genesis for stormwater mitigation, and more importantly, the development of social capital critical to economic and population stability and growth. Successful development of social capital and enhanced community identity is dependent on design solutions anchored in the sense of place inherent in the residents of Winona. Landscape architects are uniquely qualified to provide solutions to the stormwater problem which respond to place in ways influencing the identity and social capital of Winona’s residents in dramatically positive ways. This initial focus on a holistic, place-based approach to increased social capital provides a strong foundation for future economic, social and environmental stability and growth into the future. Winona can indeed enjoy a bright and prosperous future with a Place, Space, Community approach.

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Van, den Heever Annemie. "Field public space infrastructure." Diss., Pretoria : [s.n.], 2006. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-02162007-161618.

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Park, Kat Suejung 1973. "Reinterpretation of space in a networked community." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/69449.

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Thesis (M.Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2003.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 57-58).
One of the most significant reasons why architects dwell on the design of a space is because we believe that the physical environment will influence social and interpersonal relationships. Recognizing the limitations in the conventional design paradigms, this project brings the focus on the inhabitants' interactive behavior and communication patterns as the main parameter influencing the design of an academic environment. In contemporary academic infrastructure, computer-mediated communication has become an integral method of communication, providing a new platform for exchange of ideas and information. Despite this change, spatial organization and other architectural elements that govern the interactions remain traditional, disconnecting inhabitants from their interaction protocols. The first section of this thesis expands on the current role played by compute-mediated communication in a networked community. Extending beyond simple exchanges of email or instant messages, the design exercise produces a collaborative online platform which translates the physical community and its existing human interactions into the digital realm, as well as extend the existing spaces and social infrastructure. The influence of the redefined and redistributed spaces on the individuals' identity, perception, and their relationship to the organizational culture becomes the new design variable that initiates an investigation into different notions of space and physical architecture. By illustrating scenarios of user interaction and behavior, this thesis proposes a new model for integration of technology into the physical architecture that can clarify and foster new interactions and new ways to share knowledge and experience in an academic environment.
by Kat Suejung Park.
M.Arch.

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Bergh, Maria G. "Community Ecology: Social Capital in Public Space." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1337352062.

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Van, der Westhuizen Liani. "Infill, reconfiguring public space." Pretoria : [s.n.], 2000. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-05182005-112331.

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Meyers, Rachel-Yoon K. "Treatise of body/space." This title; PDF viewer required Home page for the entire collection, 2008. http://archives.udmercy.edu:8080/dspace/handle/10429/9.

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Hallett, Lawrie. "The space between : defining the place for Community Radio." Thesis, University of Westminster, 2015. https://westminsterresearch.westminster.ac.uk/item/q321y/the-space-between-defining-the-place-for-community-radio.

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This thesis examines the emergence of Community Radio in the United Kingdom. It places the sector within an historical context dominated by the BBC and strongly influenced by the subsequent arrival of commercial radio broadcasting. Understanding this historical context, which includes consideration of the role played by unlicensed 'pirate' radio operators, is, in the opinion of the author, a critical prerequisite necessary for assessing how and why current Community Radio practice has developed in the way it has. Primary research for this thesis includes a variety of semi-structured interviews with campaigners, practitioners and regulators and, whilst primarily focused on the emergence of the Community Radio sector within the British context, it does not ignore wider international perspectives. Recognising that, well before Community Radio began to emerge in the UK, much of the early conceptual development of the sector took place in other jurisdictions, the author also draws upon a number of international sources, including some primary research in the Republic of Ireland, Norway and the United States of America. The influence of two key factors, those of regulation and technology, are central to this research, the author arguing that these in particular have helped define (and constrain) the current position and future opportunities available to Community Radio within the United Kingdom. Legislation and regulation may have defined clear, and in some instances unique, operational objectives for British Community Radio, but when defining such objectives they have also had to take into account limited broadcast spectrum availability, constraining the scope and scale of the sector as a result. Beyond a consideration of the historical and of present day practice, this thesis also looks towards the future, examining current developments in digital broadcasting which offer the potential to counter such current capacity constraints and provide opportunities for additional community-based services in future.

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Toperzer, Krista D. "Enriching Boundaries: Extending Community Space into Federal Architecture." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1336683311.

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Lenz, Elsa. "COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS: OPENING RELATIONAL AND DIALOGICAL SPACE IN ARTS ORGANIZATIONS THROUGH COMMUNITY OUTREACH." Thesis, Tucson, Arizona : University of Arizona, 2005. http://etd.library.arizona.edu/etd/GetFileServlet?file=file:///data1/pdf/etd/azu%5Fetd%5F1139%5F1%5Fm.pdf&type=application/pdf.

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Jamieson, Martin. "Creating space to understand school-based community development within a rural Malawian community." Thesis, Canterbury Christ Church University, 2018. http://create.canterbury.ac.uk/17471/.

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The setting for this research is a rural community in the central region of Malawi. As a qualitative case-study it explores attitudes towards development as well as the processes school-based community development might go through to achieve a permanent increase in adaptability (Taylor, 2005). This adaptability is the ability of local communities to finance and maintain interventions and then adapt to changes in the social and economic environment. This thesis explores opportunities the community may develop to avoid dependence on outside control as they become increasingly self-sustaining. The research questions explore these processes and unpack shifts in community power relations while exploring the impact that faith-based organisations bring to the development process. The research positions the researcher within the lived experience of those researched and uses research instruments developed from qualitative research typologies consistent with Berkowitz, and Srivastava & Hopwood underpinned with a philosophical framework drawn from the ideas of Freire, Chambers and Wells. This research considers seven non-governmental organisations (NGOs), six schools and various authority structures within the research locality to explore their roles and the tensions each brings to the other. Drawing on a constructivist epistemology it explores current thinking and practice regarding school-based community development. Additionally, the thesis looks at teacher professionalism and identity, arguing that for teachers to develop a professional identity a degree of autonomy is needed where self-regulation and opportunity to contribute to training is necessary. This exploration is achieved by gathering data using research instruments that include semi-structured interviews, focus groups discussions and reflexive consideration from journaling and regular reviews with assistant researchers. Reflecting on the empirical data gathered to allow theory to emerge it triangulates research methods to increase reliability. I explore the processes, obstacles and hindrances to establish how self-reliance within school-based community development is approached by NGOs, and use the data to support the argument that NGO activity may be contributing to the erosion of traditional authority structures such as the community chief. It is suggested that the creation of space in which to explore common ground between developmental actors is a first step towards the creation of an empowered community whose ownership of the processes is central to a permanently adaptive development.

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Sanchez, Benjamin. "Community defrag." This title; PDF viewer required. Home page for entire collection, 2010. http://archives.udmercy.edu:8080/dspace/handle/10429/9.

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McDuell, Pinky. "Metamorphoses of space." This title; PDF viewer required. Home page for entire collection, 2007. http://archives.udmercy.edu:8080/dspace/handle/10429/9.

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Walker, Madelyn Grace. "Architectural Mediation: A Community Anxiety Center in Alexandria, VA." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/90291.

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Anxiety Disorders are the most common mental illness in the United States. While nearly 18% of Americans will experience an anxiety disorder within any given year, only one-third of those will receive treatment. Current mental health treatment facilities must navigate opposing needs for both awareness and access as well as privacy and respite. This thesis explores the ability of architecture to influence emotion and mediate between opposites through the design of a community anxiety treatment center in the heart of Old Town Alexandria, VA. The building combines community services, outpatient treatment, and in-patient treatment under one roof. Rather than a treatment facility that is removed from the city, the center is placed within an urban community, creating increased awareness and access to treatment as well as an expanded care journey through community connectivity. The building itself mediates between urban and therapeutic space, sequentially removing patients from urban stimuli as they move through increasing levels of treatment. As patients recover and begin to return to the city itself, the building gradually reintroduces them to the urban environment. Post-treatment, the location in Alexandria, VA allows patients to continue recovery through community support groups and activities.
Master of Architecture

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Douglas, Courtney. "United in diversity an exploration of spiritual space /." This title; PDF viewer required. Home page for entire collection, 2005. http://archives.udmercy.edu:8080/dspace/handle/10429/9.

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Millard, Christopher de Thorpe. "Technology in place, community in space : computers in the countryside." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.246386.

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De, Sola David Theodore. "Community, space, and performance : a public stage in Central Square." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/65710.

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Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning; and, (M.Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1995.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 143-146).
In this thesis I strive to explore the question, "what is good architecture?" through the design of a facility for formal and informal musical and theatrical performance. The site for this project is in Central Square, Cambridge, Massachusetts, on the Southeast comer of Massachusetts Avenue and Prospect Street. The program of the design includes a multi-use theater supported by first and second level commercial retail space, a multi-floored office space, and integrated subway station, each included to encourage pedestrian traffic and generate revenue. Additionally, the facility includes a jazz club, a folk room, and a rock club. The final product is a hybrid of existing facilities and ideas developed with prospective facility users; I have made efforts to take advantage of the knowledge and ideas of some users in determining the program and design. The facility aims to encourage and facilitate community integration with use-specific and non-use specific elements. It aims to strengthen the pattern of public gathering now inhibited by the spatial arrangement of the area. Among the important areas of inquiry, I focus considerable attention on the outdoor and semi-outdoor public space of the facility. The design intends to generate an eddying effect on the linear flow of pedestrian traffic down Massachusetts Avenue. By providing areas for street performers with sheltered seating and standing areas for itinerant audiences, this space intends to take on a theatric and communal character. To achieve the goals set out above I have drawn upon a process involving design, theory, and precedent models falling under three main categories. Design Precedents: -Theaters; -Music Halls; -Night Clubs. Organizational Design Precedents: -User Involved Design Tools; -User Involved Design Precedents. Inventive Programming Precedents: -Personal Account of Inventive Process; -Case investigation.
by David Theodore de Sola.
M.Arch.
M.C.P.

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Chung, Esther J. "Public space in suburbia : water infrastructure as a community catalyst." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/61201.

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Thesis (S.B. in Art and Design)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, June 2009.
"May 22, 2009." Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 35).
The phenomenon of Los Angeles, an aggressive thriving metropolis sprawling across the Mojave Desert to the Pacific Coast, is inseparable from its complex history of purchasing, transporting and consuming what is arguably the city's most sensitive need: water. For almost a century, the physical artifacts that were invented as a means to secure, manage and protect this supply have successfully distributed water throughout Los Angeles. However, the increasingly pervasive presence of water infrastructure has also had negative impacts on the quality of public space in LA's suburbs. In scale, shape and tectonics, water infrastructure alienates the human experience of the public realm. The presence of water infrastructure in Los Angeles suburbs, which already carry the stigma of monotonous architecture and bland public space, only aggravates the problem of a landscape that is hostile to the pedestrian. Water infrastructure in suburbia must be recognized for what it is-a critical element for the growth and support of human settlements, but also a source of further estrangement of the very people meant to benefit from it. This thesis proposes a solution that mediates the spatial divide, infuses multi-use of the actual artifact and raises awareness of ecological and economic issues in an effort to reinvent water infrastructure as a catalyst for engagement, education and community.
by Esther J. Chung.
S.B.in Art and Design

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Bishop, Madison. "Taking Up Space: Community Formation Among Non-Urban LGBTQ Youth." Oberlin College Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin1431882184.

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Köhler, Thomas, Katrin Höhn, Martin Schmauder, Nina Kahnwald, and Tanja Schilling. "The SIFA community as a virtual learning space in OSH." Saechsische Landesbibliothek- Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Dresden, 2015. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-181537.

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In the years 2004 to 2012, a long-term study on the effectiveness of safety experts was commissioned by the German Social Accident Insurance (DGUV). An interdisciplinary team of scientists investigated in these years the activities and the effectiveness of services for professionals responsible for occupational safety and health (OSH). In a case study-like manner it is discussed how the technology that was originally developed as an acquisitions and incentive instrument for the various phases of the safety experts' long-term study, now has become the safety experts’ online community. Both as a stand-alone instrument of prevention as well as a place of learning for professionals for occupational safety, it seems to be a highly appropriate technology. Accompanying the mentoring ensures regular technology updates to meet the increasingly broad use by a growing number of OSH specialists.

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Nolan, Laura-Jane. "Space, politics and community : the case of Kinning Park Complex." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2015. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/6771/.

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This thesis is about space, politics and the community. It examines how spatial politics constitutes a community through time. It explores the way that urban governance interacts with community politics, and more importantly, how people can rework politics through spatial practices. The thesis scales down to focus on a case study of Kinning Park Complex (KPC), an independently run community centre that was saved from closure by building users in 1996 following a 55 day sit-in. I track the trajectory of this space since 1996, to investigate the resourcefulness of the community to withstand multiple crises at local and national levels. KPC is a valuable social and political space that continues to exist in, against, and beyond neoliberalism. I focus on the paradoxical nature of KPC, as the space appears in-line with the current government plans to expand third sector projects in a context of austerity, whilst simultaneously striving to function as a non-hierarchical and not-for profit space. It is both an important site of social of reproduction and a symbolic community space. Through participatory methods and ethnographic observations, I have explored the social practices at KPC to investigate what they reveal about social relations and the structural problems that independent spaces face in the context of austerity. I draw upon the theories of Pierre Bourdieu and Jacques Rancière to elucidate the contradictions in their theoretical disagreement by relating their ideas to the rich empirical material that I gathered at KPC. Finally, I draw upon Doreen Massey to bridge this theoretical divide and to provide an essential spatial context to my work. The thesis brings to light the complexities, contradictions and tangible forms of labour involved in simultaneously struggling against, and providing services autonomously from, the state during austere times.

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Faller, Kevin W. "Reprogramming the Grid: Community Psychology's Role in Urban Systems." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1275664829.

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Bhola, Gaurav. "India and China space programs from genesis of space technologies to major space programs and what that means for the international community /." Orlando, Fla. : University of Central Florida, 2009. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/CFE0002745.

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Olckers, Heinrich. "Entopia : creating an urban transition space." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/29933.

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This study is aimed at identifying ways in which architecture can facilitate social cohesion and desegregation. The preindustrial vernacular, which has failed to adapt from apartheid ideologies, has been proposed to include social integration as opposed to the creation of segregated environments. This is achieved through the design of an urban waiting room and gateway at the threshold between Pretoria Station and the inner city of Pretoria. The investigation can be summarised as creating entopia, which translates to achievable space, focus on architecture of the every day, cater to real world needs of city users and address problems unique to place and setting - which in the context of Pretoria, includes the promotion of social integration. Copyright 2011, University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. Please cite as follows: Heinrich, O 2011, Entopia : creating an urban transition space, MArch(Prof) dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd < http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-11292011-162950 / > C12/4/38/gm
Dissertation (MArch(Prof))--University of Pretoria, 2011.
Architecture
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PUGH, JILL K. "ARCHITECTURE IN THE DIGITAL AGE: COMMUNITY SPACE IN SMALL TOWN AMERICA." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1179422400.

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Abate, Kiersten G. "Places That Make People Feel Good: Understanding the Relationship Between Access to Green Space and Community Well-being." Thesis, Boston College, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/1955.

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Thesis advisor: Brian Gareau
Thesis advisor: Juliet Schor
This research seeks to understand how, if at all, access to green and open spaces impacts community well-being. Although much work has been done in the environmental justice sector on the disproportionate distribution of amenities in low-income communities, these studies have focused mainly on the negatives such as toxics and pollutants. This research is important because it seeks to understand the importance of environmental amenities that are not available to these populations. In order to understand this relationship, I conducted in-depth interviews with nine community members and observed at four green or open spaces. As a result of the above procedures, I found that green and open spaces not only have a positive impact on community well-being, but they influence personal well-being as well. Personal well-being is enhanced by activities that foster perceived mental and physical health for individuals, while community well-being has been linked to the ability to participate in social encounters with others. Although there are many other factors that inevitably provide well-being, it is important to note that all of my interviewees believed green and open spaces in their community were a prominent contributor. This research enhances the understanding of the less visible environmental injustices low-income communities suffer. I hope that this study serves as a catalyst for future research on a larger scale that will prove the importance of access to these areas. It is my hope that cities will begin to plan their parks and open spaces in ways that will benefit the most people and that areas where space is an issue will begin to create small green areas wherever possible
Thesis (BA) — Boston College, 2011
Submitted to: Boston College. College of Arts and Sciences
Discipline: Sociology Honors Program
Discipline: Sociology

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SHARMA, SUCHI. "COMMUNITY AND IDENTITY: A FRONT PORCH FOR VERMILION, OHIO." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1114650936.

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Yang, Huan. "Campus landscape space planning and design using QFD." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/33761.

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Millions of people live and work on college campuses everyday. The environment they dwell and interact with is essential to their quality of life and health. There is no doubt that the campus landscape is of great importance to millions of students, faculty, and staff on campus. Surrounding communities are also significantly affected by college campuses as colleges often provide education and social events, as well as economic activities. However, in the past, the design of campus landscape spaces have been overlooked or treated as a leftover of buildings, even though campus landscape spaces are more than the â facesâ of colleges.

With more and more colleges and universities expanding and redesigning their landscape spaces, the design of campus landscape space has gained more recognition in the recent twenty years. One of the significant changes in the design process is the taking of usersâ needs/concerns into account. This change is influenced by a community-based design concept found in Active Living and Public Spaces design. While Active Living and Public Spaces design emphasizes the importance of user involvement and different techniques in soliciting user input, there is a missing link between user input and the design program elements.

In this thesis, I examine the past practice of campus landscape space design and propose using Quality Function Deployment (QFD) to fill in this missing link. QFD has been used in various industries, including service and manufacturing, for years. It emphasizes the importance of taking usersâ needs, called Voice of Customers (VOC), into the design process. The employment of different matrices to capture the relationship between VOC and subsequent design and quality characteristics makes QFD a unique framework suitable to fill the gap in the current design process.

A case study of campus landscape space design is conducted to examine the applicability of QFD in campus landscape space design, including the advantages, the obstacles, and the unique condition of using QFD in landscape design. The study yields several insights on the application of QFD in campus landscape space design, which are applicable in other landscape design projects.

Master of Landscape Architecture

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Ryan, Pius. "A case study of a networked learning community : the "third space"." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/13858.

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The purpose of this research was to develop a deeper understanding of the formation, operation, and impacts of a networked learning community within a geographically and culturally diverse school district in British Columbia, Canada. The general approach used for this research was case study methodology. As such, the work must be appreciated as a whole and as a narrative of how something came to be the way it is; in other words, to arrive at a comprehensive understanding of the group under study: Who are its members? What are their stable and recurring modes of activity and interaction? How are they related to one another and how is the group related to the rest of the world? The primary data sources for the study were network participant interviews and documents related to the network. The main findings of the study include a deeper understanding of the impact Ministry and School District level policies and practice had on the network’s inception and evolution; the operational details and structure that supported the network in order to create the conditions for learning; and how the perceived success was based upon focused “teacher talk”. Implications for practice include an understanding of how seemingly simple system actions are influenced by a broad array of macro and micro socio-political actions, as well as the historical context of an organization. The research also suggests that networks are not an end in themselves or fit into a prescribed typology but constitute a shifting terrain with impacts beyond the life of the network.

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Patil, Vrushali Bhaskar. "Space, identity and international community : negotiating decolonization in the United Nations." College Park, Md. : University of Maryland, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/3696.

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Thesis (Ph. D.) -- University of Maryland, College Park, 2006.
Thesis research directed by: Sociology. Title from t.p. of PDF. Includes bibliographical references. Published by UMI Dissertation Services, Ann Arbor, Mich. Also available in paper.

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Pugh, Jill K. "Architecture in the digital age: community space in small town America /." Cincinnati, Ohio : University of Cincinnati, 2007. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?ucin1179422400.

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Advisor: Gordon Simmons. Title from electronic theses title page (viewed Nov. 21, 2007) Includes abstract. Keywords: community; digital; technology. Includes bibliographic references.

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Anderson, Jonathan Mark. "Environmental direct action : making space for new forms of political community?" Thesis, University of Bristol, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/1983/470c8929-f448-4d1f-876b-78bdbad5f40c.

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Ankersen, Imke Kristin. "Community healing in BonteLanga : a space for social healing and reconciliation." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19087.

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The South Africa of today remains a largely divided society in which people of racialised groups often still regard one another with suspicion. This is not only a case of black and white since racially inflected attitudes and perceptions are just as rife amongst segments of the coloured and black community. This holds particularly true where resources are as scarce as in the townships of Cape Town's Cape Flats. The 'Community Healing Project' facilitated by the Institute for Justice and Reconciliation (IJR) uses dialogue and debate as main tools in a community-level reconciliation project between Langa, a black African township, and Bonteheuwel, a coloured township. Using the IJR's intetTention as a case study, this thesis deals with community dialogue as a means of correcting misconceptions and promoting attitudinal change. The aim of the study is to assess the impact of the intervention on some participants and its importance for the prevention of future conflict. The thesis draws on various disciplines to provide a theoretical framework for community dialogue interventions. Participant observation, indepth interviews as well as a critical discourse analysis of two IJR publications are then employed to identify and discuss some of the practical challenges as experienced in the implementation of the project. The analysis of the semi-structured in-depth interviews is centred on four distinct but closely interconnected themes. The analysis of the data suggests that despite some frustrations the community intervention has impacted significantly on participants' lives and the relations between the two communities and the IJR's approach proves meaningful for the participants. Includes bibliographical references (pages 77-87).

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Spina, Danton Christopher. "Confused Spaces: Theatricality as a device for defining different types of public space." DigitalCommons@CalPoly, 2013. https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/theses/1136.

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Confused Spaces has come to the conclusion that theatricality can be a device for defining different types of public space. This book aims to define theatricality in architectural terms by taking principles from the disciplines of theater and urban design. It limits the scope of the definition to a specific set of elements of theatricality that include spectacle, transition, flexibility, and compactability. After attempting to define why these elements of theatricality are valid architectural concepts, the text then pushes to understand the experience that these elements can create. Through the use of historical and contemporary references, an argument for theatricality can already be found to exist but simply has not been clearly defined. The best methods of studying the design concepts are initially discussed. It is believed that in addition to a thorough case study of an existing structure which practices theatricality, the best way to explain the concepts of the idea as well as analyze them would be through several design attempts. Architectural competitions become the venue for experimentation. Three competition entries are submitted that attempt to implement theatricality. One more competition is created and results in an exhibition of the entries as well as an installation which can be studied and analyzed in a physical space. By using principles distilled from all the preceding research and design analysis, a theoretical large-scale design is explored. The design combines significant site data with all the design principles defended in the text up to this point. The design becomes the most complete visual representation of the core concept for theatricality. In conclusion, it is determined that the principles of theatricality clearly have a significant impact on the public and the pedestrian experience. It is encouraged for the concept to be used as a design device for creating pedestrian-friendly spaces in the future.

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Jupp, Eleanor Frances. "Making public space : community groups and local participation in Stoke-on-Trent." n.p, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/.

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Kendall, Marilyn. "Lost in space : service users' experience of mental illness." Thesis, Durham University, 2000. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/1524/.

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Meehan, Angela Elizabeth. "Community in the garden in the community : the development of an open space resource in Boston's South End." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/40127.

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Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 2007.
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Now a permanently protected type of open space, the community gardens in Boston's South End began in the early 1970's as an effort to utilize vacant land in what was a predominantly low-income neighborhood. Since then, the South End has experienced steady gentrification and is now one of the most expensive neighborhoods in Boston. Despite these changes, the South End, due in part to its substantial supply of subsidized housing, has retained residents with a mix of income levels and is a neighborhood that is still known for its diversity. Much of the previous literature on the role and value of community gardens has focused primarily on low-income communities, and there has been little research on community gardens in gentrifying or similarly changing neighborhoods. The South End, therefore, is an ideal arena in which to investigate the past development and present-day role of community gardens in a changing neighborhood. This thesis examines the role of the South End's community gardens both as places in and of themselves and as part of the larger urban landscape and community.
(cont.) By taking the perspective of the community in the garden and the garden in the community, the study explores both the dynamics of the smaller communities within the gardens and their role as a unique type of open space in the larger neighborhood and community that surrounds them. Through in-depth interviews as well as archival and observational methods, it traces the historical development of a community garden movement in the South End and also examines the specific present-day dynamics of two case study gardens. The research finds that these community gardens reflect the qualities and dynamics of the surrounding neighborhood, both in terms of its positive diversity as well as its conflicts and tensions. Furthermore, community gardens are places where these qualities are uniquely engaged through the interaction of people of different backgrounds by means of their common interest in gardening. Finally, the community gardens hold unique value for non-gardeners both as open space and as gardens, and provide lessons for the potential benefits of developing and maintaining new community gardens elsewhere.
by Angela Elizabeth Meehan.
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Temple, Michael Glenn. "Parallel Processes: Embassy for the European Community." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2002. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-10092002-165729.

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Nkwocha, Allison. "Play in Place: The Role of Site-Specific Playgrounds in Community Space." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2013. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/140.

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Playgrounds do not have to be static sites, but safety standards should not be the only force that guides their evolution over time. Just as the ongoing transformation of any city is a product of many interwoven factors, the collection of smaller sites that delineates one city from another should reflect the same holistic influences. This is not an argument for the abandonment of the safety standards that influence playground design. Instead, it is an argument for the adoption of and stronger adherence to community standards that influence city design. This paper argues that a park area (and more generally, any public space) that is relevant and unique to a community will be well-used by the community and, thus, a successful space; it is in a city’s best interest to create such spaces where they are lacking and protect them where they already exist. The first chapter provides a land-centric history of the growth and development of the Los Angeles region, which is especially deficient in public green space. I argue that transportation technology and infrastructure was the great shaping force of the urban environment during the 19th and 20th centuries, and discuss the Olmsted-Bartholomew “Parks, Playgrounds, and Beaches for the Los Angeles Region” report that was presented to the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce in 1930. The second chapter covers the design communication of American playgrounds since their beginnings in the late 19th century. I also analyze the parallel between Progressive Era playground supervision and the present-day safety standard obsession that has created an equally rigid playscape. The third chapter is a case study of the ongoing historical preservation treatment of La Laguna playground at Vincent Lugo Park in San Gabriel, CA and a discussion of the value of site-specificity.

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Gegov, Emil. "Cluster damage robustness analysis and space independent community detection in complex networks." Thesis, Brunel University, 2012. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/7245.

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This thesis investigates the evolution of two very different complex systems using network theory. This multi-disciplinary technique is widely used to model and analyse vastly diverse systems of multiple interacting components, and therefore, it is applied in this thesis to study the complexity of the systems. This complexity is rooted in the components’ interactions such that the whole system is more than the sum of all the individual parts. The first novelty in this research is the proposal of a new type of structural perturbation, cluster damage, for measuring another dimension of network robustness. The second novelty is the first application of a community detection method, which uncovers space-independent communities in spatial networks, to airport and linguistic networks. A critical property of complex systems – robustness – is explored within a partial model of the Internet, by demonstrating a novel perturbation strategy based on the iterative removal of clusters. The main contribution of this theoretical case study is the methodology for cluster damage, which has not been investigated by literature on the robustness of complex networks. The model, part of the Internet at the Autonomous System level, only serves as a domain where the novel methodology is demonstrated, and it is chosen because the Internet is known to be robust due to its distributed (non-centralised) nature, even though it is often subjected to large perturbations and failures. The first applied case study is in the field of air transportation. Specifically, it explores the topology and passenger flows of the United States Airport Network (USAN) over two decades. The network model consists of a time-series of six network snapshots for the years 1990, 2000 and 2010, which capture bi-monthly passenger flows among US airports. Since the network is embedded in space, the volume of these flows is naturally affected by spatial proximity, and therefore, a model (recently proposed in the literature) accounting for this phenomenon is used to identify the communities of airports that have particularly high flows among them, given their spatial separation. The second applied case study – in the field of language acquisition – investigates the word co-occurrence network of children, as they develop their linguistic abilities at an early age. Similarly to the previous case study, the network model consists of six children and three discrete developmental stages. These networks are not embedded in physical space, but they are mapped to an artificial semantic space that defines the semantic distance between pairs of words. This novel approach allows for an additional dimension of network information that results in a more complete dataset. Then, community detection identifies groups of words that have particularly high co-occurrence frequency, given their semantic distance. This research highlights the fact that some general techniques from network theory, such as network modelling and analysis, can be successfully applied for the study of diverse systems, while others, such as community detection, need to be tailored for the specific system. However, methods originally developed for one domain may be applied somewhere completely new, as illustrated by the application of spatial community detection to a non-spatial network. This underlines the importance of inter-disciplinary research.

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Jupp, Eleanor Frances. "Making public space : community groups and local participation in stoke-on-Trent." Thesis, Open University, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.435919.

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Ryan, John Michael. "Easton a 21st century (r)evolution in consumption, community, urbanism, and space /." College Park, Md. : University of Maryland, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/2493.

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Thesis (M.A.) -- University of Maryland, College Park, 2005.
Thesis research directed by: Dept. of Sociology. Title from t.p. of PDF. Includes bibliographical references. Published by UMI Dissertation Services, Ann Arbor, Mich. Also available in paper.

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Ocampo, Atheneus C. "Towards a Community College Pin y Praxis| Creating an Inclusive Cultural Space." Thesis, Loyola Marymount University, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10139326.

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Darder (2012), in Culture and Power in the Classroom, argued that a system of educational inequality is promoted through the consistent production and reproduction of contradictions between the dominant culture and subordinate culture. More significantly, she noted that these dominant and subordinate culture contradictions create a necessity for bicultural individuals to navigate the dialectical tensions between dominant and subordinate cultures and the processes by which education perpetuates dynamics of unequal power and reproduces the dominant worldview. Hence, she urged educators to challenge prevalent power structures and re-imagine the process of schooling as a more inclusive form of pedagogy, geared towards establishing and sustaining cultural democracy in the classroom.

This study responded to the call to work with a Pilipino/a student organization in creating an inclusive space in the schooling experience. The learning process for many Pilipino/a students has historically been steeped in a colonialist mentality and directed toward assimilating these students into the practices of mainstream culture in order to survive. This qualitative research intended to address the unjust issues rooted in the dominant structure of schooling and the persistence of a form of colonizing education that fails to incorporate Pilipino/a sociohistorical knowledge and practices of knowing. More specifically, it addresses issues and tensions related to the process of biculturalism, which Pilipino/a students are required to manage in order to utilize their voice and lived experiences as a basis for action. The methodology of this study was influenced by Pagtatanung-tanong—a Pilipino/a equivalent to participatory action research. In utilizing this approach, the study was formulated through the voices of Pilipino/a students at a community college engaged in community building actions toward cultural affirmation.

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Barras, Abigail. "LIGHT IN COMMUNITY: a study in the adaptive reuse of sacred space." VCU Scholars Compass, 2019. https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/5858.

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ABSTRACT MOTIVATION American life is increasingly fragmented, leading to a sense of restlessness and disconnection. Much of that fragmentation can be traced to our pattern of architectural and sociological development, namely, the rise of the automobile suburbs in the 1950s and 60s and the abandonment of densely populated, human- scaled environments like that of the small town or city center (Oldenberg, 1999). PROBLEM Large numbers of architecturally significant buildings have fallen into disrepair over the years following the “white flight” of the 1960s and 70s, during which significant segments of investment dollars left city centers and followed to the suburbs (Kunstler, 1994). Specifically, older church buildings have fallen victim to a dilemma of sociological change. Many of the congregations that inhabit historic church buildings do not have the vitality, vision, and sometimes funds to maintain their buildings. While there are many newer congregations that do have the vision and vitality to maintain an older building, they often do not have the funds to do so. As a result, an increasing number of community treasures, buildings built at a dense urban and human scale, are being lost to neglect and misuse. METHODS In order to gain a clearer and more specific understanding of the issues involved in revitalizing and maintaining historic sacred spaces for the benefit of their communities, a course of study was undertaken which included readings of books and articles on urban revitalization such as “The Past and Future City” by Stephanie Meeks, those on third place like Ray Oldenberg’s classic, “The Great Good Place”, and some on the integration of the arts in community centers and shared space. Case studies of successful adaptive reuse projects of church and synagogue buildings, such as Maison de la Littérature in Quebec City and those undertaken by Partners for Sacred Places in Philadelphia, were investigated. Interviews were conducted with leaders from both older and newer urban congregations, and with directors of local community centers and for-profit businesses. RESULTS According to studies completed by The National Trust, historic buildings help a city to maintain its urban vitality, and maintaining stock of old buildings must be an important component of any serious conversation about sustainability in the built environment (Meeks, 2016). At the same time, many historic and architecturally significant buildings which were constructed at a time when church attendance was a larger part of the American cultural experience are falling into disrepair because the congregations that inhabit them are often unable to generate the energy, vitality, and funding that is necessary to maintain them. REFLECTIONS/CONCLUSIONS This project will explore the development of a community center for education and the performing arts in an historic church building. The program will include a small cafe, rentable studio space, a library/ reading room, a performance venue, and event space. Research will support development of a third place model, successful adaptive reuse of sacred space, and will explore options for cost-effective renovation of an historic space.

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Fields, Cynthia Fern. "Epideictic Space: Community, Memory, and Future Invention at Civil War Tourist Sites." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/82930.

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This dissertation examines American Civil War tourist spaces in order to describe how epideictic rhetoric has distinct spatial functions that affect the identity of tourists. Through an analysis of three Civil War spaces in Virginia--Lexington, Appomattox Court House, and the Museum of the Confederacy--I argue epideictic space is a locus of invention that has the performative power to create community, public memory, and a vision of the future through the movement of bodies in space. Through a consubstantial ethos established between space and audience, epideictic creates kairotic space and time by collapsing past, present, and future in order to create a narrative history with which the community can identify. This study traces rhetoric related to the Confederate flag, slavery, nationalism, and reconciliation through an analysis of the Civil War spaces in which these discourses are embodied. I suggest that creating a productive rhetoric of blame starts through connecting blame, such as remembering slavery, to the materiality of space and through creating narratives of responsibility that connect memory to a vision of the future.
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